The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-22
TELEGRAPHIC.
THE COMMERCE. BILL.
It's Main Features as Agreed Upon by
Congress-.

ROADS anu pdTlly ny WaI0I, When DOLl
are used under the control, manage
ment and arrangement, through more
than one State or Territory, or from
anv place in the United States to an ad-
! iacent forel country. 1t deems t, {
term - railroad" to include all bridges
and ferries used or operated by any
railroad. All the charges made for any
! 8 rVice rendered in the transportation
of passengers or property shall be
reasonable and just, and every unjust
vice is prohibited and declared to be
unlawful.
Section 2 makes it unlawful for any
common carrier subject to the proY:s
sions of this act 10 change, demand,
collect or receive, directly or indirectly
rom any person or persons, a create
or less compensation for any service
rendered in the transporting ofpassen-
gers or property, than it charges, de-
m lands, collects or receives from any
other person or persons for doing for
him or them like and Contemporaries
Gus service, in the transportation of like
kind of traffic under substantially SIM
liar circumstances and conditions.
Section 3 makes it unlawful for
any common car Ter, subject to
the provisions OF this act, to make
or give any undue. or unreasonable
preference or advantage to any par
ticular person, company, firm, corpo-
ration or locality, or any particular
description of traffic. Every common
carrier subject to the provisions of this
act shall according to their respective
powers, afford all reasonable, proper
and equal facilities for the interchange
of traffic between their respective lines,
and for the receiving, forwarding and
delivering of pas sengers and property
to and from their several lines and
those connecting Herewith, and shall
not discriminate in their rates and
charges. between such connecting lines.
Sections 4 and (the long and short
haul and pooling sections) are as fol-
lows: r- ~ ~ ~
Section 4-That it shall he unlawful
for any common carrier, subject to the
provisions of this act, to charge or re-
celye any greater compensation in the
aggregate for the transportation of
passengers or of like kind of property,
under substantially similar circum-
stances and conditions, for shorter than
for longer distance over the same line,
in the same direction, the shorter
being included within the longer dis
lance, but this shall not be
constructed as authorizing any
common carrier within the terms of
this act to charge and receive as great q
compensation for q shorter as for q
longer distance; Provided, however, that
upon application to the commissioner
appointed under the provisions of this
act, such common carrier, may, in
special cases, after investigation by the
commission, be authorized to charge
less for longer than for shorter distances
for the transportation of passengers and
property; and the commission may,
from time to time. prescribe the extent
| to which such designated common car
riers may be relieved from the opera
ton of this section of II i; act.
Section 5 That it shall be unlawful
for any common ca rrier subject to the
provisions Of this act, to enter into any
contract, agreement or combination
with any other common carrier, or car
riers, for the pooling of the freights of
different and competing railroads, or
to divide between them, aggregate or
net the proceeds of the earnings of such
railroad or any portion thereof, and in
any case of an agreement for the pool
ing OF freightS, as before said, each day
Oh its continuance shall be deemed
separate offense.
Section requires that after ninety
days from the passage of the act every
common carrier subject to its pro-
visions shall have printed, and keep for
public inspection, schedules showing
the rates, fares and charges, and, in ad-
dltlOn to requiring the railroads to give
TOr1h lioifr- OF VI 10,
eral lines, 1t gives authority to the COM
mission, where it is proper and neces-
sary, to require them to give
places beyond the lines of their
that the rates, fares and charges shall
not be raised except after ten days of
public notice, but that they may be re
duced without previous public notice,
the notice, however, shall be slmulta-
neous with the reduction itself.
Section makes it unlawful for any
common carrier to enter into any COM
bination or agreement TO prevent the
carriage of freights from being contin-
uous from the place OF shipment to the
place of destination,
Section declares that any common
carrier violating the provisions of this
act shall be liable to the person or per-
sons injured thereby, for the full
amount OF the damages sustained in
cons equence of any such violation. to
gether with reasonable counsel or attor-
ney's fees.
Section 9 provides that persons claim
ing to have been damaged by the action
OF common carriers, may proceed for
the recovery of their damages, either in
the courts of the United States or be-
fore commission herein provided for,
out not before both tribunals.
Section 1e-Makes it a penal offense
to violate any of the provisions of this
act, and puts the maximum of the fine
which may be imposed at the sum of
So 600
The eleven following sections con
tain the commission features of the bill.
They provide for commission, TO con-
slst Of i've persons, whose term Of office
shall be Tor six years, except for the
hrSt appointments, which are to be
for two, three, four, FIVE and six
years. The members OF this COM
ave TO be appointed
by the President, by and with the ad-
vice and consent of the Senate. Their |
office shall be in Washington,
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